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in our community and allow me to give them appointments in the various moo commission and the city and i want to announce my newest point to the aging commission because per not getting younger i want you to know doctor sham meret tan knee has been selected to be on our commission on aging and yes, he is going to help us because there is a lot of you that want to be in our city and you want to make sure that healthy nutritional unusuallile programs and housing are constructing wisely and so i have asked him to step forward and i have asked john paul s ema h a who has been on our treasure island and watch what he is going to do because that is a new part of our city and it's one where if he conducts all of the work that he is going to do as a commissioner on treasure island, he is go to get a lot more treasure island to serve the that you saws of small residents that are a part of it and so we are seeking more fault and please step forward and represent our communities proudly and i'm very willing to work with all of you and on behalf of our city and on behalf of this wonderful celebrat
in our community and allow me to give them appointments in the various moo commission and the city and i want to announce my newest point to the aging commission because per not getting younger i want you to know doctor sham meret tan knee has been selected to be on our commission on aging and yes, he is going to help us because there is a lot of you that want to be in our city and you want to make sure that healthy nutritional unusuallile programs and housing are constructing wisely and so i...
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representing the asian-american community city. we are a small community center, but we are here for the last 12 years. we see other cbo's come and go. but we stay. we are serving the underprivileged asian community immigrant communities. they don't have the means or language skills to do better in their life. so we are helping them in many other ways. and also have small business owners to enhance. and how to strive in a bad economic time. i am telling you that district 10 and bay-view hunter's point is the future. so i ask seeking your attention to come to this area and look for the future. here we are, we are not doing very good economically, but we are rich in spirit and we are rich in talent. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chen. and now district 11 community representative, rachel ebora and nicole agbiyone. and then we have omar community collaborative, gwen brown. >> good afternoon, i am the executive director of burnle heights. >> good evening, our organization works through the vitalized commission street in excelior planning
representing the asian-american community city. we are a small community center, but we are here for the last 12 years. we see other cbo's come and go. but we stay. we are serving the underprivileged asian community immigrant communities. they don't have the means or language skills to do better in their life. so we are helping them in many other ways. and also have small business owners to enhance. and how to strive in a bad economic time. i am telling you that district 10 and bay-view...
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lease of the southeast community facility and however the city pays rent to the excellently for that the college pace 2 hundred and 7 thousand and the puc subsidies the power so the total cost to the excellently in the departments proximate $2.26 million in this past fiscal year on the second page. there's some detail on the elections in prior years it ranges between $20,300,000 depending upon the items on the voter pamphlet and the last item identifies money that the human agencies gives to the college and that amounts to about $2.8 million. so again, it's charges for services they're not in kind their actual services that are provided consistent with the administration code or the practices to charge those entities. beyond this there's a health services and the college is charged for that based on the options elected by the employees of the college of costs and any other similar types of fringe benefits. >> thank you for the quick response to our questions. i want to ask about so the utilities from the public utilities are for power and water? >> correct. >> and you said election m
lease of the southeast community facility and however the city pays rent to the excellently for that the college pace 2 hundred and 7 thousand and the puc subsidies the power so the total cost to the excellently in the departments proximate $2.26 million in this past fiscal year on the second page. there's some detail on the elections in prior years it ranges between $20,300,000 depending upon the items on the voter pamphlet and the last item identifies money that the human agencies gives to...
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we have kids from every community sitting in your inner city youth. and you can come there and see for yourself. i hope that they will give us the money for the multi-media project and tommy, say something. >> my name is tommy, basically what icy what it does from tuesday to saturday they do like studio time. show you how to do your videos, and make beats. and on saturday is a clean-up day. and everyone gets paid (inaudible) that's basically it. >> lisa. >> hello, my name is lisa scola, i live in district 10 on wisconsin street. i am very happy that the budget is being balanced. thank you very much and i am happy about our supervisor cohen. i am an artist and i have been writing opera in district 10 for 20 years. and bringing people in from the community to perform in the operas. classical music and orchestras. and wonderful things happen and these are our resources. i want to ask if they will continue and increase the cultural equity grants and the san francisco art commission is reviewing these things. and the benefit of doing this, it's a small amo
we have kids from every community sitting in your inner city youth. and you can come there and see for yourself. i hope that they will give us the money for the multi-media project and tommy, say something. >> my name is tommy, basically what icy what it does from tuesday to saturday they do like studio time. show you how to do your videos, and make beats. and on saturday is a clean-up day. and everyone gets paid (inaudible) that's basically it. >> lisa. >> hello, my name is...
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is a city especially those of the first respondents meet the language each of our communities. the language axis ordinance is one of the strongest ordinance is in the nation. 43% residents speak a language other than english at home. that is why in 2009 as i served as city administrator the office of civic engagement and immigrant rights was established to assist economic vulnerable immigrant and english speaking residents and ensure compliance with a language access ordinance. san francisco is one of the first cities in the nation to link line which access to city engagement, immigration integration and meaningful participation. ,in order to take part in the census , operate with police and fire testify at board and commission hearings we must be inclusive and ensure that our residents with little or knowing this can participate in their city government and interact with any city agency. yes, there are still challenges and i agree that some department struggle to meet language needs of our city's diverse needs. we have made it difficult progress over the past three and half ye
is a city especially those of the first respondents meet the language each of our communities. the language axis ordinance is one of the strongest ordinance is in the nation. 43% residents speak a language other than english at home. that is why in 2009 as i served as city administrator the office of civic engagement and immigrant rights was established to assist economic vulnerable immigrant and english speaking residents and ensure compliance with a language access ordinance. san francisco is...
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we've worked really hard to improve interoperatability communications with the city. if we were needing assistance from oakland police department and they needed to come into san francisco, we have a really good structure to be able to implement interoperatable communications over the radio. but with the military this is a whole new set of radio frequencies, radio technology, even before the planning we didn't know what they had. it took us several planning opportunities and meetings to flush through some of that information and one of the biggest take aways for us, as a city we're required to have a tactical interoperatable communications plan. it describes how you interoperate in an emergency or an event within the city as well as regional partners. we don't have that with military and i think that's one of the biggest take aways, we need to really flesh out a document so we have captured who our contacts are, what technology they are going to bring to the table and start that initial planning from the get-go. we also had some technical challenges with land mobile r
we've worked really hard to improve interoperatability communications with the city. if we were needing assistance from oakland police department and they needed to come into san francisco, we have a really good structure to be able to implement interoperatable communications over the radio. but with the military this is a whole new set of radio frequencies, radio technology, even before the planning we didn't know what they had. it took us several planning opportunities and meetings to flush...
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win for the city, the university and the community. >> i would imagine all the developers are looking at the housing. >> i'm not in the position to describe by i'd like that housing is a logic thing for the site. i don't know what the specifics are at this point >> right and a there's ail kinds of opportunities to developing that site and we're open to discussing with developers. >> i would like to see the city get involved now. >> right. we've met with ken rich from the mayor's office to get the input >> and then one question it's an amazing amount of the 20 thousand employees do you know where they live and commuting from what sites? for over 50 of our employees live in san francisco and many of them come from the east bay and the south bay but i don't know what the adjoining counties. >> i'd like to echo the concerns that are raised in regards to laurel height and it's just? general where developments s are planned and their sort of laid out and they don't come to the commission until their pretty much planned. so i think that single homes are the best thing to develop in that area
win for the city, the university and the community. >> i would imagine all the developers are looking at the housing. >> i'm not in the position to describe by i'd like that housing is a logic thing for the site. i don't know what the specifics are at this point >> right and a there's ail kinds of opportunities to developing that site and we're open to discussing with developers. >> i would like to see the city get involved now. >> right. we've met with ken rich...
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many of the city departments decided to come together with the community-based agencies to plan this forum. the forum is comprised the criminal justice agencies and elected officials and the managers that are willing to work with the community-based organizations that are doing the work day in and out. i welcome you to listen at first and hear the perspective from each agency as they relate to the different perspective titles. and i would encourage you to make sure that you listen in terms of asking any questions during the second panel. so we can begin that dialogue that is need in the city and county of san francisco. once again we would like the district attorney to give a couple of words and to be able to acknowledge the importance of this forum today. please welcome the district attorney. >> thank you, and good morning, and welcome to our hall of justice. welcome to the first-ever transitional youth forum that is being held here. i think it's important for us to recognize there a difference between those of the ages of 18-25, and someone that is older or someone that is below. t
many of the city departments decided to come together with the community-based agencies to plan this forum. the forum is comprised the criminal justice agencies and elected officials and the managers that are willing to work with the community-based organizations that are doing the work day in and out. i welcome you to listen at first and hear the perspective from each agency as they relate to the different perspective titles. and i would encourage you to make sure that you listen in terms of...
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that was one of my most successful times, when the business community was appreciate you you aring city hall. that's our tax base. at a time when tax bases are diminishing income to citizens is diminishing, when you can show them how different it can be, that suddenly makes good business sense to them and they'll dedicate the resources to you. so, that's what's worked for me. (applause) >> anybody else up there? everybody okay with that answer? i think we're pretty grateful here in san francisco that we have a mayor that was actually the director of the department of public works. so, we know he's totally on top of it and involved. do you have another question? >> this isn't geared towards any particular speaker, but it is geared towards abatement. we have an annual volunteer event where graffiti is removed city-wide. in an effort to encourage youth to participate we are considering a flash mob where all volunteers will abate graffiti at the same time on the same day along major thoroughfares. is this a good idea or does it detract from the issue? thoughts? ok
that was one of my most successful times, when the business community was appreciate you you aring city hall. that's our tax base. at a time when tax bases are diminishing income to citizens is diminishing, when you can show them how different it can be, that suddenly makes good business sense to them and they'll dedicate the resources to you. so, that's what's worked for me. (applause) >> anybody else up there? everybody okay with that answer? i think we're pretty grateful here in san...
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government and in the community to help. those that are lucky and can survive; all of this and when they end up on the shores of san francisco, if we can find them and provide them with support and help them change their lives. and then get to the business of the criminal acts involved in exploiting our kids. we should do all of that and this trafficking. i want to thank everybody for being here today, helping celebrate this event recognizing the awareness month but also recommitting ourselves in every possible way to do what we can do to end this on a worldwide basis and to know the source businesses and individuals and groups of people organized to continue this effort and to do our best to end their activities as well. i want to make sure that i think both emily but also nancy goldberg for your interest as well not only interest but your work as a native san franciscan to do everything that you have been doing to end this too. i am privileged today to recognize a number of individuals who have been strong, strong advocate
government and in the community to help. those that are lucky and can survive; all of this and when they end up on the shores of san francisco, if we can find them and provide them with support and help them change their lives. and then get to the business of the criminal acts involved in exploiting our kids. we should do all of that and this trafficking. i want to thank everybody for being here today, helping celebrate this event recognizing the awareness month but also recommitting ourselves...
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, the city i care about it all and it still makes me happy. i have my friend gloria here who's my right arm. i'm honored and humbled and i'm leaving you something when i go away i'm going to leave my daughter so i believe in the cause. i'm here for real and i thank you so much for the privilege of getting up every morning and working in the very best district in the best city. >> thank you angie that's what i'm talking about. it's not always that the student is honored but this student is the best student. this gentleman absolutely controlled the crowd and was so articulate and unflapable i'm thrilled here's the young man. the purpose of this award is to honor students who have succeed above all odds and he fits the description here's mr. williams. please come down. >> hi everybody thank you for having me tonight, i'm pretty nervous but i'm going to tell you about myself and my disability. i'm mr. williams
, the city i care about it all and it still makes me happy. i have my friend gloria here who's my right arm. i'm honored and humbled and i'm leaving you something when i go away i'm going to leave my daughter so i believe in the cause. i'm here for real and i thank you so much for the privilege of getting up every morning and working in the very best district in the best city. >> thank you angie that's what i'm talking about. it's not always that the student is honored but this student is...
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for us at la cocina that are micro-communities and small communities with a city as diverse as san francisco don't have the micro-community to support it economically so you might have a regional mexican kri seen but not with enough mexicans to support that but not knowing how to move outside of that micro-community or an opportunity to move out they will stay in the informal bucket and not get to the asset generation. what make it successful? low cost of entry, flexible hours are things that you can address in the industry so we identified things that women need at our organization to be successful. one is a sharing community and san francisco is engaged in right now but leaves out low income entrepreneurs and as the ideas come about to share resources and find ways they're accessible to folks not comfortable in the media rulm and child care and ride share are huge ones and to develop resources or work with developers to bring in resources that others need and provide that need in lower risk than currently available. the current economic opportunities are really so high risk it's not a good
for us at la cocina that are micro-communities and small communities with a city as diverse as san francisco don't have the micro-community to support it economically so you might have a regional mexican kri seen but not with enough mexicans to support that but not knowing how to move outside of that micro-community or an opportunity to move out they will stay in the informal bucket and not get to the asset generation. what make it successful? low cost of entry, flexible hours are things that...
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i won't give up and never will but this is great what we have come up here with our community and city and especially for our students that we can have an opportunity to move up and look forward at some things. not everybody is going to do three or four years in the college but there's some good construction jobs out driver's license. oh, i'll just go and be an engineer. we can see light at the end of the tunnel. it takes a long time sometimes to turn a big ship around but that's what we've done. i want to congratulate the labor movement it's something we can all be proud of. and i feel like crying be another and i want to thank everybody. >> thank you any questions or comment from the board before we refer this item? yes >> there was a further comment regarding economical concerns. >> i'll keep my comments brief. the nature of our certain regarding whether the local higher policy is in compliance with propose 39 is the assumptions that any policy that the board would adopt would have no negative economical impacts on costs or the expenditures of the bond program. we've identified 5 ma
i won't give up and never will but this is great what we have come up here with our community and city and especially for our students that we can have an opportunity to move up and look forward at some things. not everybody is going to do three or four years in the college but there's some good construction jobs out driver's license. oh, i'll just go and be an engineer. we can see light at the end of the tunnel. it takes a long time sometimes to turn a big ship around but that's what we've...
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i want to read a poem today and thank you for welcoming the poetry community into city hall to celebrate national poetry month. this poem won first place at the beat museum poetry contest in 2007. it's called the pain of progress. simple world covered over with glitz and grit and greed, pleasure of plastic paradise [speaker not understood] and driving us up the walls. new buildings have to bring in trees that fit the look of industry. [speaker not understood] day correspond um blocks the views and creativity. what doed good to metal facades do for boxed in metal transplants and [speaker not understood]? [speaker not understood] making room for modern money making market, serving up slices of privilege bread. no hope for the hopeless. no mind for searching eyes. [speaker not understood]. distant tips of the mountain tops. but what can we do to stop it? corporate cops prevent criminal pursuits. phone calls can't get through customer service to the real suits who obviously could careless for taste or class. or the world of brass unless their gold plated [speaker not understood], and the new
i want to read a poem today and thank you for welcoming the poetry community into city hall to celebrate national poetry month. this poem won first place at the beat museum poetry contest in 2007. it's called the pain of progress. simple world covered over with glitz and grit and greed, pleasure of plastic paradise [speaker not understood] and driving us up the walls. new buildings have to bring in trees that fit the look of industry. [speaker not understood] day correspond um blocks the views...
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color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different parts of the world, like a gateway neighborhood. not just for the new chinatown, as it was called in the 1980's, but for russian-speaking immigrants, people from the caribbean. there are so many different mixtures of people, and i guess my district, like many other neighborhoods in the city, is kind of what draws me to it. and just the political life of people very passionate about their own communities and their life, but also interacting with others from around the world. it has been wonderful. i
color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and...
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, this city has bridged that gap. i want to say thank you for coming to the mission and i hope you hear my comments. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> phillip -- third generation mission merchants. kind of reluctant to throw accolades to the captain, because when we do that they become chief of another police department. it's one of the finest you have in the force. thank you so much. i'm going to give you a different story. usually merchants come to the place and say we are going to have an event and we need protection of our customers. this gentleman just got us an unbelievable marketing opportunity. act came to captain that said they wanted to mount a performance in the armory called black watch from may 9-june 9, 28 performances. expecting about 30,000 people. i just saw the marketing director. we went to the chapel, used to be the mortuary, 77 valencia street. now it's a theatrical venue. he signed a contract to have all the donors come for an opening evening. we plan to have 20 restaurants of the mission to
, this city has bridged that gap. i want to say thank you for coming to the mission and i hope you hear my comments. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> phillip -- third generation mission merchants. kind of reluctant to throw accolades to the captain, because when we do that they become chief of another police department. it's one of the finest you have in the force. thank you so much. i'm going to give you a different story. usually merchants come to the place and say we are...
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and also to have great support from the city family and community. these next two days should be very informative and i look forward to meeting with all of you. i encourage you to find current and former members of the graffiti advisory board. at this time could all the members that are present stand? okay. the rest will be here going over the course of a couple of days. thank you. (applause) just a little background. we've been working on this now for 8-9 months. you are far off in the distance. you think you see it but you are not sure. we had a lot of struggles, a lot of growing pains. it all came together. standing up here looking at all of you i really think that we have a good conference and you are going to enjoy it. we appreciate you all being here. the last person that i want to bring up, i need to talk a little bit about him. we met him at one of his local graffiti city greets that he does. we happened to send one of our representatives to one and share the idea of doing the international conference. he was also trying to work at the same t
and also to have great support from the city family and community. these next two days should be very informative and i look forward to meeting with all of you. i encourage you to find current and former members of the graffiti advisory board. at this time could all the members that are present stand? okay. the rest will be here going over the course of a couple of days. thank you. (applause) just a little background. we've been working on this now for 8-9 months. you are far off in the...
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the information on the city and community address that. then we think that individuals need to know about the make-up of the authority. how did it come into existence, what's it's mission, it's charge. we quantify that by giving it data of it's size and layout the mission statement that come from our documents and also a look at what this organizational chart looks like and then what the agency is responsible for doing in those 4 core funding strengths and that gives people a really good source of information. we'll probably add notation in the brochure that for additional information regarding the authority or the city, visit these websites. we'll direct them to a website and they want to be able to drill down. then we look at some top priorities. and the priorities obviously can change but we wanted priorities that can talk about the division and playing this leadership role in developing the city's over all transportation system including advocating for san francisco's priorities within the region. it really talks to the external role t
the information on the city and community address that. then we think that individuals need to know about the make-up of the authority. how did it come into existence, what's it's mission, it's charge. we quantify that by giving it data of it's size and layout the mission statement that come from our documents and also a look at what this organizational chart looks like and then what the agency is responsible for doing in those 4 core funding strengths and that gives people a really good source...